[Rupert Pupkin]

There was recently a string of bank robberies in Texas that was solved using this method. I don't know all the facts of the case. From my understanding, there was a string of bank robberies that were perpetrated by a group over the course of several months. The police had no leads but they knew the group was very well organized. They believed that the members of the group were communicating with cell phones during the course of the robberies

The police decided they would go to the phone companies for help. They obviously knew the dates of all the robberies so they got the records of all the cell-phone activity in the area of each bank on the respective dates that each bank was robbed.

Sure enough, the police found that on each day that a bank was robbed, the exact same cell phone numbers were calling each other right in the respective areas of each bank that was robbed, right at the exact times that the banks were robbed. They tracked down the numbers and they caught the guys.

I just realized that the story linked at the beginning of this thread talks about this very case.

I have no problem with the way this case was solved.